After Hours Art Talk

Jim Turner received his master's degree in U.S. History in 1999. He was the historian for the Arizona Historical Society for eight years where he worked with more than sixty Arizona history museums. He retired in 2009 and became an author/editor for Rio Nuevo Publishers. There he authored or co-authored six books and edited a dozen more. Jim has created self-guided audio walking tours of Tucson, Tombstone, and Old Town Scottsdale for the VoiceMap app.
Before the golden age of Hollywood westerns, our view of the frontier was shaped not by a silver screen, but by the canvas. This survey of Western artists presents more than two dozen artists. Starting with George Catlin we’ll experience the Grand Canyon paintings of Thomas Moran before moving on to classic Cowboy artists Frederick Remington and Charles Russell. In the early 20th century Kate Cory painted and photographed the Hopi Indians while Maynard Dixon and Georgia O’Keeff e brought a modern look to Western art. In the following decades Hopi muralist Fred Kabotie, Carl Oscar Borg, and Gunnar Widforss worked in the Grand Canyon. The show fi nishes with cowboy artists Joe Becker and Ed Mell and includes the work of former Navajo Code Talker, Carl Gorman.